Resources

ReachOut is a strengths-based prevention and early intervention model offering classroom resources on a variety of topics including friendships.

Excellent 8th Grade Lesson Plan on Refusal Skills..

Watch videos from teens about dealing with emotional issues.

Download brochures, Teen Line Cards, and posters.

Kimochi is the Japanese word for 'feeling'. Website is full of free resources and tools to purchase to help communicate about feelings.

TEEN LINE is a non-profit, community based organization that provides emotional support to youth. It is our mission to provide peer based education and support before problems become a crisis, using a national hotline, community outreach and online support.

This study investigated the relationship between psychological resilience and its relevant variables by using a meta-analytic method. The results indicated that the largest effect on resilience was found to stem from the protective factors, a medium effect from risk factors, and the smallest effect from demographic factors.

Article in Scientific American by Ian Chant about the effects of family problems on the developing brain. 

NIH initiative to help researchers and clinicians address a critical gap in our knowledge of how environmental exposures, especially opioid and other drug use, affect infant and child brain development.

Healthy Alternatives for Little Ones is an evidenced-based, developmentally appropriate health education and prevention program for 3-6 year-old children.